Definitions for DIE
daɪdie

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. die, dicenoun

   a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers

2. dienoun

   a device used for shaping metal

3. dieverb

   a cutting tool that is fitted into a diestock and used for cutting male (external) screw threads on screws or bolts or pipes or rods

4. die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff itverb

   pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

   "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"

5. dieverb

   suffer or face the pain of death

   "Martyrs may die every day for their faith"

6. dieverb

   be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame

   "I was dying with embarrassment when my little lie was discovered"; "We almost died laughing during the show"

7. fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break downverb

   stop operating or functioning

   "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident"

8. dieverb

   feel indifferent towards

   "She died to worldly things and eventually entered a monastery"

9. dieverb

   languish as with love or desire

   "She dying for a cigarette"; "I was dying to leave"

10. die, die outverb

    cut or shape with a die

    "Die out leather for belts"

11. dieverb

    to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player

12. die, pall, become flatverb

    lose sparkle or bouquet

    "wine and beer can pall"

13. dieverb

    disappear or come to an end

    "Their anger died"; "My secret will die with me!"

14. dieverb

    suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense)

    "Whosoever..believes in me shall never die"

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Dienoun

   Colour; tincture; stain; hue acquired.

   Etymology: from the verb.

   It will help me nothing
   To plead mine innocence; for that die is on me,
   Which makes my whit’st part black. William Shakespeare, Henry VIII.

   We have dainty works of feathers of wonderful lustre, excellent dies, and many. Francis Bacon, New Atlantis.

   Darkness we see emerges into light,
   And shining suns descend to sable night:
   Ev’n heav’n itself receives another die,
   When weary’d animals in slumbers lie
   Of midnight ease; another, when the gray
   Of morn preludes the splendor of the day. John Dryden, Fables.

   It is very surprising to see the images of the mind stamped upon the aspect; to see the cheeks take the die of the passions, and appear in all the colours and complexions of thought. Jeremy Collier, of the Aspect.

   First this
   She sends on earth; then that of deeper die
   Steals soft behind. James Thomson, Summer, l. 1685.

2. Dienoun

   pl. dice.

   Etymology: dé, French; dis, Welsh

   1. A small cube, marked on its faces with numbers from one to six, which gamesters throw in play.

   Keep a gamester from the dice, and a good student from his book, and it is wonderful. William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor.

   I have set my life upon a cast,
   And I will stand the hazard of the die. William Shakespeare, Richard III.

   He knows which way the lot and the die shall fall, as perfectly as if they were already cast. Robert South, Sermons.

   2. Hazard; chance;

   Eftsoons his cruel hand Sir Guyon staid,
   Temp’ring the passion with advisement slow,
   And must’ring might on enemy dismay’d;
   For th’ equal die of war he well did know. Fairy Queen.

   So both to battle fierce arranged are;
   In which his harder fortune was to fall
   Under my spear: such is the die of war. Fairy Queen, b. i.

   Thine is the adventure, thine the victory:
   Well has thy fortune turn’d the die for thee. John Dryden, Fables.

   3. Any cubick body.

3. Dienoun

   plur. dies. The stamp used in coinage.

   There have been such variety of dies made use of by Wood in stamping his money, that it makes the discovery of counterfeits more difficult. Jonathan Swift.

4. To DIEverb

   To tinge; to colour; to stain.

   Etymology: Deag, Saxon, a colour.

   So much of death her thoughts
   Had enterain’d, as dy’d her cheeks with pale. John Milton, P. L.

   All white, a virgin saint she sought the skies;
   For marriage, though it sullies not, it dies. Dryden.

5. To Dieverb

   Etymology: deadian, Saxon.

   1. To lose life; to expire; to pass into another state of existence.

   Thou do’st kill me with thy unkind falshood; and it grieves me not to die, but it grieves me that thou art the murtherer. Philip Sidney.

   Nor did the third his conquests long survive,
   Dying ere scarce he had begun to live. Joseph Addison, Ovid. Metam.

   Oh let me live my own, and die so too!
   To live and die is all I have to do? Alexander Pope, Epistles.

   2. To perish by violence or disease.

   The dira only served to confirm him in his first opinion, that it was his destiny to die in the ensuing combat. Dryden.

   Talk not of life or ransom, he replies,
   Patroclus dead, whoever meets me, dies:
   In vain a single Trojan sues for grace;
   But least the sons of Priam’s hateful race:
   Die then, my friend! what boots it to deplore!
   The great, the good Patroclus is no more!
   He, far thy better, was foredoom’d to die;
   And thou, dost thou, bewail mortality. Alexander Pope, Hom. Iliad.

   3. It has by before an instrument of death.4. Of before a disease.

   They often come into the world clear, and with the appearance of sound bodies; which, notwithstanding, have been infected with disease, and have died of it, or at least have been very infirm. Richard Wiseman, Surgery.

   5. For commonly before a privative, and of before a positive cause.

   At first she startles, then she stands amaz’d;
   At last with terror she from thence doth fly,
   And loaths the wat’ry glass wherein she gaz’d,
   And shuns it still, although for thirst she die. Davies.

   He in the loaden vineyard dies for thirst. Addison.

   Hipparchus being passionately fond of his own wife, who was enamoured of Bathyllus, leaped and died of his fall. Addis.

   6. To be punished with death.

   If I die for it, as no less is threatened me, the king my old master must be relieved. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

   What is the love of our neighbour?
   —— The valuing him as the image of God, one for whom Christ died. Henry Hammond, Pract. Catech.

   7. To be lost; to perish; to come to nothing.

   How now, my lord, why do you keep alone?
   Of sorriest fancies your companion making,
   Using those thoughts which should indeed have died
   With them they think on. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   If any sovereignty, on account of his property, had been vested in Adam, which in truth there was not, it would have died with him. John Locke.

   Whatever pleasure any man may take in spreading whispers, he will find greater satisfaction by letting the secret die within his own breast. Spectator, №. 595.

   8. To sink; to faint.

   His heart died within him, and he became as a stone. 1 Sa.

   9. [In theology.] To perish everlastingly.

   So long as God shall live, so long shall the damned die. George Hakewill, on Providence.

   10. To languish with pleasure or tenderness.

   To sounds of heav’nly harps she dies away,
   And melts in visions of eternal day. Alexander Pope, Eloi. to Abelard.

   11. To vanish.

   This battle fares like to the morning’s war,
   When dying clouds contend with growing light. William Shakespeare, H. VI.

   The smaller stains and blemishes may die away and disappear, amidst the brightness that surrounds them; but a blot of a deeper nature casts a shade on all the other beauties, and darkens the whole character. Joseph Addison, Spectator, №. 256.

   12. [In the stile of lovers.] To languish with affection.

   The young men acknowledged in love-letters, that they died for Rebecca. Tatler, №. 110.

   13. To wither as a vegetable.

   Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground, and die, it abideth alone; but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. John xii. 25.

   14. To grow vapid, as liquor.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. die

   A die refers to a small object with various markings on its faces typically used in games or gambling. It is usually a cube-shaped object with each of its six faces marked with a different number of dots or symbols, varying from one to six. When rolled or thrown, the result is determined by the face that lands face up, which is often used to determine random outcomes or for decision-making purposes.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Die

   of Dice

2. Dieverb

   to pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; -- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought

3. Dieverb

   to suffer death; to lose life

4. Dieverb

   to perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished

5. Dieverb

   to sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc

6. Dieverb

   to become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin

7. Dieverb

   to recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away

8. Dieverb

   to disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face

9. Dieverb

   to become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor

10. Dienoun

    a small cube, marked on its faces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. See Dice

11. Dienoun

    any small cubical or square body

12. Dienoun

    that which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance

13. Dienoun

    that part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado

14. Dienoun

    a metal or plate (often one of a pair) so cut or shaped as to give a certain desired form to, or impress any desired device on, an object or surface, by pressure or by a blow; used in forging metals, coining, striking up sheet metal, etc

15. Dienoun

    a perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from plates, or for forming cups or capsules, as from sheet metal, by drawing

16. Dienoun

    a hollow internally threaded screw-cutting tool, made in one piece or composed of several parts, for forming screw threads on bolts, etc.; one of the separate parts which make up such a tool

17. Etymology: [OE. dee, die, F. d, fr. L. datus given, thrown, p. p. of dare to give, throw. See Date a point of time.]

WikidataRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. Die

   A die in the context of integrated circuits is a small block of semiconducting material, on which a given functional circuit is fabricated. Typically, integrated circuits are produced in large batches on a single wafer of electronic-grade silicon or other semiconductor through processes such as photolithography. The wafer is cut into many pieces, each containing one copy of the circuit. Each of these pieces is called a die. There are three commonly used plural forms: dice, dies, and die.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Die

   dī, v.i. to lose life: to perish: to wither: to languish: to become insensible:—pr.p. dy′ing; pa.t. and pa.p. died (dīd).—adj. Die′-away′, languishing.—Die away, to disappear by degrees, become gradually inaudible; Die game, to keep up one's spirit to the last; Die hard, to struggle hard against death, to be long in dying; Die off, to die quickly or in large numbers; Die out, to become extinct, to disappear. [From a Scand. root seen in Ice. deyja, Dan. d[ö]e, Scot. dee; akin to Mid. High Ger. touwen, whence Ger. tod, todt. The A.S. word is steorfan, whence our starve.]

2. Die

   dī, n. a small cube used in gaming by being thrown from a box: any small cubical body: hazard:—pl. Dice (dīs).—n. Dice′-box.—adj. Diced, ornamented with square or diamond-shaped figures.—ns. Dice′-play; Dice′-play′er, Dī′cer; Dī′cing-house.—The die is cast, the question is decided. [O. Fr. det, pl. dez (Prov. dat, It. dado), from Low L. dadus—L. dātus, given or cast (talus, a piece of bone used in play, being understood). Doublets, dado, date.]

3. Die

   dī, n. a stamp for impressing coin, &c.: the cubical part of a pedestal:—pl. Dies (dīz).—ns. Die′-sink′er; Die′-sink′ing, the engraving of dies; Die′-stock, a contrivance for holding the dies used in screw-cutting; Die′-work, ornamentation of a metal surface by impressions with a die. [See above.]

The New Hacker's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. die

   Syn. crash. Unlike crash, which is used primarily of hardware, this verb is used of both hardware and software. See also go flatline, casters-up mode.

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon WurdzRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. DIE

   An effect. DIET Frequently a cause.

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. DIE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Die is ranked #84463 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Die surname appeared 222 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Die.
   
   60.3% or 134 total occurrences were White.
   25.2% or 56 total occurrences were Black.
   5.8% or 13 total occurrences were Asian.
   4% or 9 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

Matched Categories

1. • Baseball
   • Change
   • Cube
   • Disappear
   • Feel
   • Languish
   • Lose It
   • Play
   • Religion
   • Shaping Tool
   • Suffer

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'DIE' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2027

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'DIE' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1601

3. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'DIE' in Verbs Frequency: #102

Anagrams for DIE »

1. ide

How to pronounce DIE?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say DIE in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of DIE in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of DIE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of DIE in a Sentence

1. State Attorney Melissa Nelson:

   Cherish did not die quickly, and she did not die easily. In fact, hers was a brutal and tortured death.

2. John Stuart Mill:

   The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

3. Robert Southey:

   Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

4. Bernie Sanders:

   Throwing 24 million Americans off of health insurance, raising premiums for older low-income Americans, while giving $285 billion in tax breaks to the top 2% is a disgusting and immoral proposal, thousands of Americans will die if this legislation is passed and we have to do everything that we can to see that is defeated.

5. Sarena Moore:

   I knew that this is it. I'm probably going to die, i probably won't see my kids anymore. I probably won't see anybody anymore.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=DIE
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=DIE
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/DIE
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=DIE
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=DIE
7. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Die
8. ^ The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1989/pg1989-images.html#:~:text=DIE
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html